Thursday, Sept. 19 — Celebrating the launch this semester of a new LGBTQ and Sexuality Studies undergraduate specialization, Michigan State University is hosting an all day symposium Friday welcoming the new discipline.

The case of 7-month-old Brielle Green and her parents' fight to bring her back home

Maria and Gordon “Steve” Green want to know why being legally registered medical marijuana patients makes them unfit to live with their 7-month-old daughter.
More than 100 people who staged a protest on their behalf in downtown Lansing Tuesday are wondering the same thing.

South Lansing residents get behind class-action lawsuit over storm water, sewage flooding in their homes

An overnight storm dumped 4 inches of rain on Lansing on June 12 and 13.
Predictably, basements flooded, leaving hundreds with sewage or rainwater backups.
Predictably, residents railed against City Hall. “In this area, the systems have failed,” Deanna Ray, a resident of the Coachlight Neighborhood in south Lansing, told the State Journal.

In an effort to improve student achievement and struggling schools, State Rep. Andy Schor proposes legislation that would incentive year-round schooling

Thursday, Sept. 12 — State Rep. Andy Schor, D-Lansing, introduced legislation today that would incentive school districts’ moving to a year-round calendar, which he believes may help low-achieving students and fix struggling schools.

Thursday, Sept. 12 — The Lansing Board of Water and Light is diversifying its renewable energy portfolio, announcing today that it will start distributing energy generated from wind turbines 45 miles north of Lansing in fall 2014.

Supporters for military action in Syria are few and far between in greater Lansing

About 10 years ago, Anas Attal was attending a soccer match at a stadium in his hometown of Homs, Syria, when security guards opened the gates to the field.
Hearing the story, I imagined what it would have been like as a 12-year old to on the sidelines of the Pontiac Silverdome during a Detroit Lions game.

Thursday, Sept. 5 — JoAnn Forsberg and her family aren’t exactly rejoicing over the U.S. Justice Department’s announcement last week that it will largely leave it to states to regulate their own medical or recreational marijuana policies.

The battle between the Zeineh family and eastside residents

It’s been a tug-of-war summer on the 2000 block of East Michigan Avenue. The city, neighbors and business owners nearby find themselves pitted against a longtime East Side property owner and his family.

Architecture critic Amanda Harrell-Seyburn says: An intersection is a microcosm of the community. But in the last 70 years, the intersection has become one of those places that people least want to be. They’ve grown car dominated and unfriendly to pedestrians.